After appearing on more than 400 albums as a sideman and session player, multifaceted guitarist and instrument collector Geir Sundstøl gave us a trilogy of his, long awaited, own compositions. Now he is back, with a follow-up to Norwegian Grammy-/Spellemannpris- winning album Brødløs. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
18th century music inspired and informed by period mechanical musical instruments. This recording is the culmination of 10 years of research by Dr Emily Baines, and it brings to dazzling life the fascinating and effervescent performance style found in eighteenth-century mechanical musical instruments. ...
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674-1763), Samuel Arnold (1740-1802), Thomas Arne (1710-1778), Francesco Barsanti (1690–1776), Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762), John Baston (1708-1739)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
During Paganini´s lifetime (1782–1840), there were rumors that Paganini had sold his soul to the Devil. His violin technique was so astonishing, his performance style so exuberant and his appearance so, well, demonic that there could be no other explanation. ...
Composer: Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), Josef Slavík (1806-1833), Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812-1865), Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), Pavel Sporcl (b. 1973), Nathan Milstein (1903-1992), Jan Kubelik (1880-1940)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Myaskovsky: Vocal Works, Vol. 1
The dignified bearing and quiet wisdom of Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950) gained him the sobriquet of ‘the conscience of Russian music’ – and those qualities are reflected in the unemphatic strength of his music. His orchestral, chamber and instrumental works are regaining the currency they once enjoyed, but his large corpus of songs, ...
Composer: Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881–1950)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 - Spohr: Nonet in F Major, Op. 31
Twenty-five years of "Ensemble Obligat": reason enough to celebrate and honor an extraordinary chamber music formation. On its anniversary album on GENUIN, Ensemble Obligat has expanded into a chamber orchestra with soloists to present Johannes Brahms' Serenade No. 1 ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Hoffmeister, Stamitz & Mozart: Classical Viola Concertos
A mere dozen or so printed viola concertos are known of from the Viennese Classical era, contrasting with countless violin, cello, and flute concertos. There can be only one explanation for this: there were relatively few players available of truly virtuoso ability. Alongside two emblematic viola ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791), Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812), Carl Philipp Stamitz (1745-1801)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Defining French Arias of Early 19th Century New Orleans
The present album showcases works by Daniel-Francois Auber and Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry. New Orleans was one of the first cities in the U.S. to embrace opera on a significant level. New Orleans was well-noted for its French Opera House in the 19th Century. ...
Composer: Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782-1871), André Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mary Hellmann presents a program of works by Beethoven, Scarlatti, Christopher Cook, Thomas Harrison, and James Paul Sain. Mary Hellmann studied first at the University of Louisville before receiving Masters degrees from the University of Illinois and her DMA from the University of Alabama. ...
Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti (1685-1757), Arnold Cooke (1906-2005), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Harrison Birtwistle (1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Locatelli: 6 Concerti à 4, Op. 7
The Baroque Ensemble “Carlo Antonio Marino,” directed by Natale Arnoldi, already protagonist of important Classical and late Baroque productions, within this album is faced with the concerts from the seventh opera by Pietro Antonio Locatelli, well known composer and violinist from Bergamo. ...
Composer: Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
In einem kleinen Urner Bergdorf in musikalischem Umfeld aufgewachsen, gründete die Pianistin Gisela Horat 2009 ihr gleichnamiges Trio. Nach einigen Wechseln in der Besetzung spielen an der Seite der Chefin aktuell der Schlagzeuger Samuel Büttiker und der Bassist Simon Iten. Beides sind sie erfahrene Musiker mit einer beeindruckenden ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Beginnings: Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Bernstein
Drei Komponisten ganz unterschiedlicher Provenienz und Epochenzugehörigkeit versammelt das Silver Trio auf seiner jüngsten Neuerscheinung. Der junge Ludwig van Beethoven, vom Klavier als Solist herkommend, wagte 1794 mit der Erweiterung der Besetzung um die beiden Streichinstrumente erste Schritte ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Schubert: Piano Sonatas D. 840 & D. 960
Jean-Marc Luisada knows the song of Romanticism, the voice of the soul that permeates all of Schubert’s output. In the Sonata no.15, the melodies that spring from the pen of a young composer of twenty-two are deceptive. The tranquillity of the pastoral atmosphere is often answered by the harsh suffering of reality. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
COVERS Four was recorded over the period of about a year (2020/2021) at my studio in Hamburg, Germany. Mostly recorded for my monthly 'Sounds Like Dirk' radio show on bremen zwei, but sometimes just for kicks and because it's always a good thing to learn, play and record songs by fantastic songwriters. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
“Trying Not To Think About It” is an EP made up of 12 tracks which showcase honesty, vulnerability and transparency around mental health. JoJo adds: “Trying Not To Think About It is a result of feeling sooooo lost, scared, and confused at the end of 2020 ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Hip Hop Soul
Music of the Italian Baroque by woman composers and the men who encouraged them. The cicada develops slowly, secretly, over a period of years before presenting itself in style with a song that everyone can hear and appreciate. In the well-known fable, the ants belittled the cicada ...
Composer: Isabella Leonarda (1629-1704), Francesca Caccini (1587–1641), Settimia Caccini (1591–1638), Giulio Caccini (1551–1618), Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Sounds for the Soul: Music to Help Overcome Cancer
Music can be a powerful therapeutic tool and it has been shown to bring about positive emotional changes and reduce anxiety. For cancer patients, music and music therapy can also be used to develop positive coping skills that come with a cancer diagnosis. ...
Composer: Arvo Pärt (1935), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Vladimir Cosma, Charles Trenet, Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Edward Elgar (1857–1934), Harold Arlen (1905-1986)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Death Stranding (Original Score Volume 2)
Mit dem audiovisuellen Meisterwerk Death Stranding hat der legendäre Spieleentwickler und Metal Gear Solid-Erfinder Hideo Kojima ein neues Genre definiert. Das Spiel wurde in sieben Kategorien, u.a. "Best Audio", für die 20. Game Developers Choice Awards und als "Game of the Year 2020 nominiert. ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Music
There is no question too big for Boy Scouts, and no detail too small to be glossed over on the way to an answer. On Wayfinder, the follow-up to the acclaimed 2019 album Free Company, Oakland-based songwriter Taylor Vick chases her queries to the very edge of the horizon. This is an album that's not afraid to track down what it all means ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S. 173
Performed here by pianists Jenny Lin and Adam Tendler, Liszt’s rarely heard Harmonies poétiques et religieuses is a sublime example of Liszt’s early compositions. Lin and Tendler alternate movements of this monumental piano cycle. “Few performers are willing to take on not only ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Respighi: Violin Sonata in B Minor, P. 110 (Arr. A. Pompa-Baldi for Piano)
Antonio Pompa-Baldi plays his solo piano arrangement of the B minor Violin Sonata, a dramatic work from Respighi's later period. “Pompa-Baldi knew how to suspend time, letting a phrase hover and expand in poised inner stillness… He relied on warmth, exquisite taste… arresting technique.” (Los Angeles Times) ...
Composer: Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
